We have recently found about 15 dead squirrels in the same spot under an oak tree. There are no visible markings or swelling on them. They look perfectly healthy. There are no power lines, and no pets anywhere close to this area. I've called animal control and they forwarded this information to our local biologist. But we are still waiting to hear from them. There are currently 2 dead squirrels within 2 feet of each other. This happened within the last 3 hours or so. The only predators I've seen in the yard are copperheads. But again, there is no visible markings on them. Any ideas?
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Unfortunately, the most likely explanation is that someone is deliberately poisoning them.
I was just Googling about finding squirrels dead in my yard and I saw your post I have seeing one adult and four younger squirrels dead in my yard in the last 48 hours I don't know what to do
Yeah I pretty much did the same thing Googled it came across this was the first post that popped up in the Google search I walked outside this morning and there was an adult Squirrel Lane dead underneath my oak tree but the weird thing is I didn't have any hair on its tail I don't know if I need to worry about rabies because of my dogs or some other condition that they had that they could ask to my dogs I know my dogs did not kill it I noticed it outside before I let them out and it was not there last night when I said at the picnic table with my dogs I'm like at a complete Panic like it's somebody putting poison in my yard or is there a disease so confusing
I live in Florida and frequent a dog park. In the past week, there have been 3-4 dead squirrels in the dog park. They have not died due to the dogs and we are concerned about what is killing them.
This appears to be true. I found this information at the following link:
"Small rodents (like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans."
Squirrels cant get rabies
Yes I found 3 dead squirrels in my yard/driveway and doesn't look like anything is wrong with them. So I found this and I agree I think somebody is poisoning them
I read on a University page online some thoughts of why squirrels that are healthy can be dead is that someone is poisoning them.
Another mentioned "a cold winter is ahead trees produce a chemical that will help the tree survive the cold and it is passed on to the acorns"
web.extension.illinois.edu/
Squirrels carry rabies. I am wondering if they had rabies. I would push for animal control to come to a solution.
They dont carry rabies. Very very rare
Squirrels do not carry rabies as per my animal control. I also find 2 dead squirrels in my backyard
This does not sound good and it is easy to see why you are concerned. It may be poison but it is strange that squirrels are dying in the same area.
Information:
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Is it possible they could have gotten electrocuted from running across the power lines?
I have found 5 dead squirrels in my yard. And I see slow squirrels that do not run away and struggle to move around slowly. I walk right up to them and they sit there and look at me as I try to shoo them up a tree. The oaks dropped 5x s more acorns here covering the yards then i have ever seen.
We are in Maple Grove just south of Champlin. We have had 2 dead squirls in 2 days (Nov 3 and 4). No apparent cause
What most are not commenting on, as the squirrel bodies stack up, is that, in the roadways, the bodies are littering the side of the road more than they are getting flattened on the road.
I was told that something had been sprayed, here in Maine, to knock back mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus.
It is doing more than that.
I think state and federal agencies had better look into whats been sprayed and what, if any, long term effects the products used may have on the environment.
If its killing squirrels at such a prodigious rate, what will happen if it carries over into our bloodstreams.
Is this now in our ground water?
How much unseen wildlife is just collapsing, unseen, in forested situations?
I think this was a harsh, mistaken attempt that implies broad environmental harm.
Hi, I've found 5 dead squirrels in my yard in the last 2 weeks, 3 today alone. They are adults and all healthy except for a small wound in the belly on the last 2. I didn't examine the others to see if they did also. They look like they just laid down and went to sleep. This is Jan 2020 in the Denver area.
I know that you posted this comment 2 years ago, but I agree with what you are saying. In the past few months I've seen an awful lot of "roadkill" and dead animals on the roads. Most of them being squirrels. Most of them don't even look like they were ran over or anything, they just looked like they were lying there, in an abnormal position when I saw them
Just from going to a trip to the store, and to the doctor, I've seen 3 different dead squirrels.
2 dead squirrels in our back yard in the last hours. One dead, one dying. Both have small belly wounds, both found in the same "pose" on their bellies, back legs splayed out. Poor creatures. We're in MN. 2021 March.
That sounds like a Hawk tried to lift it and failed. I found a large squirrel in my backyard and thats the first thing I thought of.
I live in Kansas, and I just saw one in grass on side of the road. I almost didn't see it lying in the grass dead. walking from local Dollar store. I was wondering, if walking up on one like that if should have be cautious or concerned about it I came close stepping on it?
Now i came here because i googled random dead squirrels because my house i keep finding them in my yard dead nothing wrong with them. But this comment your on to something. I live in akron ohio and the county been spraying alot for mosquitoes late at night. Now im seeing dead squirrels. So it very well could be from them spraying.
I have also found a dead squirrel in my yard. It was an adult, perfectly healthy with no obvious sign as to how it died. It had no abnormal marks or patterns on it, and it was one of the healthiest squirrels I've ever seen, and I live next to the woods! There was no swelling or anything to indicate if it was poisoned or not, but it was lying next to the fence when I found it. It's body was laying straight, almost as if it was electrocuted, but there were no signs to say so. This was the first time we've ever found a dead squirrel in our yard, as they never really stick around, they always stay in the woods.
I also had a healthy looking dead squirrel in my yard. My neighbor also found one in his yard. Oddly in the same back area of my yard, a large dead raccoon was found in my myrtle, rotting. Today a dead speckled Robin same garden area. Im wondering if a neighbor is putting poison out for mice or rats or squirrels. Im beside myself every time I come across a little critters body.
I live in Tennessee and recently found a dead squirrel in my yard. It appeared to have laid down on its belly in front of a pecan tree and died. No sign of injury whatsoever in an area of yard once full of squirrels. Being leery of chicken poo usuage, I thought it odd since fields had recently been covered with it. Since I feed the birds, I have noticed birds are not as plentiful as were prior too. Has anyone else noticed a correspondence between the two incidents?
I live in Tennessee and recently found a dead squirrel in my yard. It appeared to have laid down on its belly in front of a pecan tree and died. No sign of injury whatsoever in an area of yard once full of squirrels. Being leery of chicken poo usuage, I thought it odd since fields had recently been covered with it. Since I feed the birds, I have noticed birds are not as plentiful as were prior too. Has anyone else noticed a correspondence between the two incidents?
I have one this morning?? Looks fine except he died, froze to death? Under my giant fir tree @ fall to his death? I just dk
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